Every major question in American public life ultimately returns to a single source of authority: the Constitution. Whether ...

Caleb E. Nelson, a leading originalist law professor, challenged the conventional wisdom of the “unitary executive theory” in an article that was debated in the parties’ briefs ahead of Monday’s ...

Advocates for each side will provide a different explanation for who falls under ‘the jurisdiction’ of the United States.

Bills that should defend labor or small farmers can be outmaneuvered by interests that stand to profit. This is not ...

There’s no exemption for either party in the text of the parchment. We also have the War Powers Resolution.

The originalist argument in favor of birthright citizenship is that the phrase “subject to the jurisdiction” was meant to invoke only a small set of exceptions found in traditional British common law.

When the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Trump administration's petitions seeking to resurrect Executive Order 14160 -- the ...

The administration asked the justices to uphold an executive order ending birthright citizenship after lower courts ruled it ...

Last week, we celebrated Constitution Day or Samvidhan Divas. It was on November 26, 1949, that the final version of the ...

Chief Justice John Roberts has led the Supreme Court’s conservative majority on a steady march of increasing the power of the ...